as in agricultural
engaged in or concerned with agriculture
an agrarian community the nation's agrarian history
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White Trash has nothing to say about the agrarian populism of the nineteenth century, which saw small farmers confront powerful banks and railroads over exploitative loans and rates.
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Jefferson Cowie, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
Whenever factional rivalries, regional tensions between Eastern and Western Republicans, or conflict between industrial and agrarian sections, threatened party unity, the tariff cemented them together.
—Bruce J. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
Younger China hands saw the CCP as agrarian reformers with little interest in world revolution.
—Timothy Nunan, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2017
But where Grapes is relentlessly symphonic and often melodramatic, Unknown—which was finally edited and released 20 years ago—is intimate and restrained, focusing acutely on the slow-motion erosion of the agrarian American dream in a pattern of exploitation that the Dust Bowl only intensified.
—Mark Athitakis, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
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Jefferson Cowie, Foreign Affairs, 17 Oct. 2016
Whenever factional rivalries, regional tensions between Eastern and Western Republicans, or conflict between industrial and agrarian sections, threatened party unity, the tariff cemented them together.
—Bruce J. Schulman / Made By History, TIME, 24 Oct. 2024
Younger China hands saw the CCP as agrarian reformers with little interest in world revolution.
—Timothy Nunan, Foreign Affairs, 10 Oct. 2017
But where Grapes is relentlessly symphonic and often melodramatic, Unknown—which was finally edited and released 20 years ago—is intimate and restrained, focusing acutely on the slow-motion erosion of the agrarian American dream in a pattern of exploitation that the Dust Bowl only intensified.
—Mark Athitakis, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
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“Agrarian.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agrarian. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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